Resumen de Filologia e storia per gli affreschi di Agnolo Gaddi nella cappella Castellani in Santa Croce
After the recent conservation and related study of the "Legend of the True Cross" frescoed by Agnolo Gaddi in the main chapel of Santa Croce in Florence, scholarly attention now shifts to the other cycle painted by the artist in the Franciscan church: the "Stories of Saints Anthony Abbot, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist and Nicholas", as well as figures of Evagelists, Prophets and other Saints in the Castellani Chapel. The autor proposes that this cycle postdates the one in the capella maggiore, noting the emergence of the neo-Giottesque style adopted by Agnolo during the final phase of his career. She reconstructs the relationship between the patrons of the two chapels -the Alberti and the Castellani- within the context of Florentine political history of the 1380s, and recognizes that the iconography of the Castellani Chapel reflects that family's affiliation with Guelph oligarchy that controlled the government of the Republic.
